remaster of TMb2 stops at boot prompt.

[evans_christopher]

 I made a remaster of the latest tinyme the other night and instead of booting as usual I get a boot prompt. I can enter a cheat-code and it will launch and install as usual. Don't know if this is a bug or just on my machine. This has happened on two separate remasters though. I'm going to try it with debug splash=0 and write down the output as gettinther suggested and should have more info shortly. Just posting this in case anyone else runs across a similar issue.


(edit) okay, here goes. Doesn't make a bit of sense to me, but maybe it will to someone else.

Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
Pid: 1, comm:swapper not tainted 2.6.31-9-unity0.2.lgc #1
Call Trace:
[<c046eb9b>] ? printk+0x28/0x3d
[<c046eaca>] panic+0x52/0xfb
[<c010140d>] init_post+0xbd/0x100
[<c064c4ec>] kernel_init+0x173/0x18e
[<c064c379>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x18e
[<c0104e67>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

            hopes this makes sense to someone, if not sorry for wasting space/time.

                                                                      Later!

[gettinther]

OK,

Your issue is that when the cd boots, it fails to find isolinux.  This is before the real deal starts.  Could you re-install the following packages:

mklivecd
tinyme-gfxboot-theme  (or unity-gfxboot-theme, not sure which one)
bootsplash
bootloader-utils

basically I think your /boot/gfxmenu might be corrupted.

[evans_christopher]

 Thanks gettinther. That seems rather easy and straight-forward. Will give this a try now and let you know how it goes!


Edit 1/22/10 :Well, unfortunately it didn't work. Reinstalled everything except tinyme-2010-gfxboot-theme as it wasn't available for reinstallation. I think I may try building again from the original TMb2 iso and seeing if this happens again. I will keep my remaster just in case anyone has more ideas on how to fix this problem.

[gettinther]

when you open the livecd (after burning it on a cd or dvd), there should be a few files accessible once the cdrom is mounted. Check the 2 below.

isolinux/isolinux.cfg (that's your boot menu entries, open it with a text editor to see if it is corrupted)
isolinux/isolinux.bin (that's the binary) check the byte count and that it matches the one on the tinyme livecd (mine is 14336 bytes).

I think we can leave the gfxboot files aside since you get graphics.